PHOTO: Lighting up the holidays

Photo by Keith Thorpe/Olympic Peninsula News Group / The Dungeness River Nature Center stands illuminated by Christmas lights as visitors roam the outdoor patio after a lighting ceremony for the center and nearby Railroad Bridge on Nov. 16 night in Sequim. Hundreds of people took part in the event, which featured holiday songs by the Sequim High School Choir on the historic bridge over the Dungeness River.

Photo by Keith Thorpe/Olympic Peninsula News Group / The Dungeness River Nature Center stands illuminated by Christmas lights as visitors roam the outdoor patio after a lighting ceremony for the center and nearby Railroad Bridge on Nov. 16 night in Sequim. Hundreds of people took part in the event, which featured holiday songs by the Sequim High School Choir on the historic bridge over the Dungeness River.

Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

Vanessa Fuller, left, and, Raelynn Dickinson, 7, enjoy their illuminated “wings at Sequim’s Railroad Bridge following the lighting ceremony on Nov. 16. Hundreds of people took part in the event, which featured holiday songs by the Sequim High School Choir on the historic bridge over the Dungeness River.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

The Dungeness River Nature Center is illuminated by holidays lights as visitors roam the outdoor patio after a lighting ceremony for the center and nearby Railroad Bridge on Nov. 16 in Sequim.

Photo by Keith Thorpe/Olympic Peninsula News Group

Glynda Ball of Sequim puts the finishing touches on a self-made wreath at a wreath-making station at the Dungeness River Nature Center’s Nature Mart on Nov. 18. The event, a fundraiser for the nature center’s education programs, also featured a gift mart of hand-crafted, nature-related gifts, a bake sale and photo opportunities with the center’s taxidermic animals.

Photo by Keith Thorpe/Olympic Peninsula News Group/ Glynda Ball of Sequim puts the finishing touches on a self-made wreath at a wreath-making station at the Dungeness River Nature Center’s Nature Mart on Nov. 18. The event, a fundraiser for the nature center’s education programs, also featured a gift mart of hand-crafted, nature-related gifts, a bake sale and photo opportunities with the center’s taxidermic animals.

Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell / Vanessa Fuller, left, and, Raelynn Dickinson, 7, enjoy their illuminated costumes at Sequim’s Railroad Bridge following the lighting ceremony on Nov. 16.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash / The Dungeness River Nature Center is illuminated by holidays lights as visitors roam the outdoor patio after a lighting ceremony for the center and nearby Railroad Bridge on Nov. 16 in Sequim.

By Michael Dashiell

Sequim Gazette

Photo by Keith Thorpe/Olympic Peninsula News Group / The Dungeness River Nature Center stands illuminated by Christmas lights as visitors roam the outdoor patio after a lighting ceremony for the center and nearby Railroad Bridge on Nov. 16 night in Sequim. Hundreds of people took part in the event, which featured holiday songs by the Sequim High School Choir on the historic bridge over the Dungeness River.

Photo by Keith Thorpe/Olympic Peninsula News Group / The Dungeness River Nature Center stands illuminated by Christmas lights as visitors roam the outdoor patio after a lighting ceremony for the center and nearby Railroad Bridge on Nov. 16 night in Sequim. Hundreds of people took part in the event, which featured holiday songs by the Sequim High School Choir on the historic bridge over the Dungeness River.

Photo by Keith Thorpe/Olympic Peninsula News Group/ Glynda Ball of Sequim puts the finishing touches on a self-made wreath at a wreath-making station at the Dungeness River Nature Center’s Nature Mart on Nov. 18. The event, a fundraiser for the nature center’s education programs, also featured a gift mart of hand-crafted, nature-related gifts, a bake sale and photo opportunities with the center’s taxidermic animals.

Photo by Keith Thorpe/Olympic Peninsula News Group/ Glynda Ball of Sequim puts the finishing touches on a self-made wreath at a wreath-making station at the Dungeness River Nature Center’s Nature Mart on Nov. 18. The event, a fundraiser for the nature center’s education programs, also featured a gift mart of hand-crafted, nature-related gifts, a bake sale and photo opportunities with the center’s taxidermic animals.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash / The Dungeness River Nature Center is illuminated by holidays lights as visitors roam the outdoor patio after a lighting ceremony for the center and nearby Railroad Bridge on Nov. 16 in Sequim.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash / The Dungeness River Nature Center is illuminated by holidays lights as visitors roam the outdoor patio after a lighting ceremony for the center and nearby Railroad Bridge on Nov. 16 in Sequim.